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- Comment on Petty pedantry 1 day ago:
but,
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 1 day ago:
Even without direct interaction, it’s easier to know someone as “the guy in the cabin on hillside road with the blue Honda CRV and the beard”. I assume that’s what the comment meant since they tied privacy to anonymity
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 2 days ago:
Without seeing what you’ve seen, that honestly sounds more like a symptom of the platform, current internet trends, and algorithm gaming than it sounds like a cheesy viral marketing campaign
- Comment on Are color palettes subject to copyright protection? 3 days ago:
Doesn’t he have a bean to flick?
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 1 week ago:
Found one item real quick, Husky Foam Kneeling pad. Same price of $14.88 for NYC, LA, Nebraska, and Delaware.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 1 week ago:
That’s not my tax rate, although it’s a good guess. It occurs across a number of store sin my area, although all in the same state. My theoretical benign explanation is its an inventory code for short term items around holidays. I’ll probably be there later today and see what I can find
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 1 week ago:
$14.88 is an obnoxiously common price for temporary box display items at home depot. Gloves, kneeling pads, drill bit kits. Always gets an eyebrow from me
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 1 week ago:
Tesla has airways had volitility. It goes up when musk overhype it, it goes down when tesla underdelivers. I had some stock and got off that roller coaster when the truck was unveiled. I stopped believing it was above board at all.
Sick nazi reference in the numbers though.
- Comment on When I sort by "newest" why is the top post a month old? 1 week ago:
I see you were given some confirmation it’s a larger problem. To explain why we needed more details, “lemmy” is not a singular site. You registered on lemm.ee, while I’m on lemmy.world, which are 2 out of dozens of different “instances”. Some other popular ones include lemmy.ml, Midwest.social, and kbin.social. These instances all federated together, meaning they have the ability to view and interact with each other. The “community” (like a subreddit if that’s where you come from) you posted to here is hosted on my home instance, lemmy.world. You’ll also see the term “defederation” used. If two instances constantly fight or, say, an instance creates a constant influx of bad actors, an instance may decide to defederate with that instance. This cuts off that interoperability between the two. There are ways to block them on your own as well, I believe.
On top of that, we’re all using different clients. Some from a web browser, some on various mobile apps such as jerboa, connect, etc.
This means to diagnose your problem (and any future problem), we need info to determine if this is a you-problem, an app problem, and instance problem, or a community problem.
Good luck. Stick around. It’s quiet here compared to wherever you came from, most likely, but you’ll probably find a bunch of the same people over and over. It takes some adjustment.
- Comment on Day 248 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 1 week ago:
Idk, maybe I’m the one who phased out of cup stacking by being old. But still, we can’t be that far off from when explaining cup stacking will sound like how I feel about pole sitting.
Skrillex is sort of the face of mainstreamed dubstep. I just learned his subgenre is brostep. The work that came before him was… Gritty. Close to the Key & Peele skit. The FC3 song is closer to common EDM.
Sierra Leone by Mt Eden is probably what I’d use as an example of the best of traditional dubstep
- Comment on What model Black SUV is in this test video? 1 week ago:
The numbers used to denote the engine and trim, to an extent. The letters are the important part. RX series, as opposed to NX or LX
- Comment on What mythologies have poor representation in media, in your opinion? 1 week ago:
Look at symbols of Christian holidays, then read where they came from. I’d say that represents misrepresented mythologies. It’s all stolen symbolism to blot out the competition.
The Easter bunny giving eggs? Spring is about fucking and both of those are symbols of fertility.
- Comment on Day 248 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 1 week ago:
4 is very similar to 3, in my opinion. It generally ranks lower than 3, but I’d attribute that to 3 defining expectations and 4 meeting expectations rather than pulling another groundbreaking move. 3 shared some notable elements with 2 but refined the direction of FC. 2 doesn’t have magic and FC enjoyers begroaned 3’s supernatural element, but here we are.
5 removed the supernatural element and got some mixed feelings. I’d put some of that on the fact that they brought the white American savior trope home to America. Instead of a foreign land under a whimsical authoritarian regime the West likes to go to war with, it’s a religious cult in classic Americana rural towns. It’s like changing from 1990s Batman movies to the Nolan trilogy. Gritty, more realistic, closer to historical fiction than fantasy. It harks back to the 1993 Waco Massacre.
I’ve played 6 on and off over the last few years. I read lots of hate but still enjoyed it. It’s in Cuba, so it was back to being a far-off fantasy for me, with lots of story rooted in the 1960s revolution (though the game is present day). That is until the Gaza war flared up. Suddenly the game got uncomfortable for me. You play as a terrorist group fighting the military. That’s not exactly different from 4. Sure, if you win, it’s a revolution, but if you lose, historical speaking, the winners call it terrorism. I suppose the story could be considered weaker, but it’s a change up. Instead of basing the story on you vs the big bad, it’s rooted more in the friends you make along the way. You’re building a revolution as one faction gathering 3 more.
There’s also 3 half-games. Between the main titles, half of the prior maps for alternate experiments. I’d wait for all the titles to be discounted but would say the halfsies need to be discounted more. Granted, they’re probably all regularly under $20 now anyway.
After 3 came Blood Dragon, using one of the islands for an over the top 1980s synthwave action comedy. It has corny 80s moves in lieu of superpowers. It’s fun.
After 4 came Primal, a prehistoric version of the FC formula. I think it’s neat that they developed a proto-proto-indo-european language for a 10,000BC setting. Spears, slings, clubs, and knives are the weapons here with some grenade-like items. There’s spiritual elements resembling living a mythology. It’s also fun.
After 5, New Dawn is actually a continuation of the story. A quasi-Fallout/Mad Max post-nuke-apocalypse world in which Joseph Seed still lives - and becomes an ally. I think it brought in supernatural powers from nuclear stuff. Probably my least favorite of the 3, but still enjoyable. It also introduced a number of the elements people begroaned in 6, so maybe that’s why I don’t mind 6 as much.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been a halfsies between 6 and, presumably, an upcoming 7. 6 does have some extra story (dlc?) that has you relive parts of the prior titles. I haven’t done them nor read about them much so I can experience them myself.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
In the world of phone keyboards doing whatever the fuck they want with autocorrecting capitalizations, that is effective (assuming they’re equally trained to accept both words and don’t autocorrect Gbits to GBytes)
Lol, who down voted your comment though? Why? Best I can do is bring it back to 1 point.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Same with every average ISP customer. 1GB/s down and 1Gb/s up sounds like the same thing. ISPs expect customers to know the difference the same way Tesla pretends everyone knows airplane autopilot is just a speed and vector system
- Comment on Day 248 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 1 week ago:
Make it Bun Dem by Skrillex and Damien Marley
I’m glad you enjoyed the song. I don’t know your age, but seeing that screenshot made me realize how hard it’d be to explain the popularity of dubstep and, in particular, Skrillex to anyone who wasn’t there. Same goes for the immortalization of the “oh my god!” featured in Nice Sprites and Scary Monsters, screamed by the girl who stacked cups in record time. Or stacking cups. This feels like the making of an “onion tied to my belt” type of rambling story. I imagine most of this platform was there for dubstep and that the young adults today had way more internet access than I did as a kid, so it’s probably not even unknown yet.
The song shuffles into my playlist sometimes and takes me back to both that game moment and the generalized memory of blasting that from my ipod nano into my grandpa’s handmedown Ford Taurus with the headphone wire I hardwired into the cassette deck. If you think dubstep sounds bad now, I made it sound worse.
What a coincidence. I looked up the Key & Peele skit about dubstep. My exact generation of Taurus is involved, identified by the circular rear window. The skit is worth it on its own, of course
- Comment on Day 246 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 2 weeks ago:
This was his breakout and now everyone expects his fake accent! But definitely Chek out his little live action FC3 scene where he tortures McLovin if not already seen
- Comment on Day 246 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 2 weeks ago:
FC3 was the first to make drug trips part of story progression (leaving a little leeway for FC2’s malaria bouts). FC4 had a lot of “spiritual” events. FC5 played a lot with Bliss trips. I’m wrapping up FC6 now and was just saying “man, where are all the hallucinatory story arcs?”. Then I did the Oluso mission (panther amigo) and felt at home for a minute. It didn’t last long, but I guess the reward is bringing back a little supernatural power to the game, late in the campaign.
- Comment on Tokyo Xtreme Racer is a novel throwback to classic PS2 racing games like Midnight Club 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for all that extra detail. I’ll put it on a watch list to see where it goes. I’ll just go play in traffic for now
- Comment on Tokyo Xtreme Racer is a novel throwback to classic PS2 racing games like Midnight Club 2 weeks ago:
How would you describe the driving mechanics? I tried NFS Heat to feel that retro night vibe, but the mechanics were atrocious in my opinion. They’re too arcadey. Forza Horizon has become my standard for a balance between realistic (predictable) mechanics without punishing me for every mistake. I don’t mind Forza Motorsports but I’m more interested in cruising and racing stylistic cars more than perfecting lap times.
Is it open world? Japan and JDM aren’t that big in my automotive enthusiasm scale but there’s something deeply nostalgic when I can ride through some highway lights, virtual or real, that resemble the Japan track from Gean Turismo 1 or 2
- Comment on Not trying to choose a side but when did Dems become well wussies? They Have FDR, JFK, OBAMA, Clinton, under their belt. The Reps have Reagan. How come the Dems don't fight fire with fire anymore? 3 weeks ago:
This is what I believe will always be the root of democrat’s inaction: too many directions for improvement. Both sides want the country to be better, right? So let’s talk about what the democrats, liberals, and progressives want. They want, in no particular order, reproductive freedom, religious freedom, racial equality, gender equality, socialist welfare, cheaper and more effective healthcare, reduced citizen financial burden, cleaner air, healthier ecosystems, more efficient transportation, more efficient energy production, and global societal cooperation, to name a dozen. What do we tackle first? Some would say reproductive freedom is of the utmost importance because that will cause society to collapse the fastest. Some say climate change policy is the most important because the irreversible damage is growing exponentially. Then some would say the financial crisis is the priority because none of the rest matters if the population is pushed to homeless starvation. 13 theoretical representatives push 13 different utopian priorities.
Now say there’s 20 reps in total, 7 being republicans and conservatives. What would make the country better for them? Well, looking at the much less diverse demographic, take half of the above goals but append “white, Christian, patriarchal, wealthy” to the citizens they wish to appease and throw out the other half of the topics. Instead of providing progressive policy that balances benefits for all citizens, they smaller group: the “majority” of the nation that represents only about 1/3 of the population. All these 7 conservatives have to do is fold their arms and say no to whatever policy the liberals are pushing. They don’t have to agree on how to best revert the country back to the good old days when liberal subgroups give them easy targets. Reject wildlife restrictions and their constituents will feel good because it’s not their forest. Reject clean air acts because their constituents will believe the air is the way it is. Reject social welfare because their constituents believe the money saved will make them wealthy. Reject reproductive freedom because their constituents will blame it all on personal choice for others, God’s mysterious ways for themselves. Reject gender equality because their constituents believe in the patriarchy. Reject global cooperative initiatives bevause their constituents believe America is a freestanding nation.
13 democrats line up as individuals while 7 Republicans stand with elbows linked, calling “red rover, red rover, send your policies over” ready to block it as a team of negativity. To break through the wall, democrats have to compromise with each other first on the division of resources, watering down each of their goals. The it gets watered down again with something that might pass the whole group. Multiple policies get tied together as one big bill, not one item at a time. This is what makes it so frustrating when any rep gets called out for voting against some bill that supposedly is clearly for the benefit of the country. It’s most like 15 different topics strung together and whatever their priority is doesn’t align with its representation within that bill. Yet, voting by party lines is the only way to move forward. If they agree with the bill, then they’re flopping on their core values.
Then, sprinkle in some key single-issue voter topics and you’ll probably get the attention of swing voters and non-voters. I’m in a liberal area. The sane people I’ve talked to that turn out to vote republican are always dead set on one topic. Sometimes, they’re quiet Christians that are anti-abortion. Sometimes they’re hunters that shut down as soon as a liberal mentions gun control. Sometimes they’re rural people who believe petroleum vehicles will be outlawed. Sometimes they believe the capitalist machine will reward them for being honest workers as soon as the corporation catches a windfall. Sometimes the techy types want nothing but net neutrality first.
The GOP machine is working exactly as designed with a dozen single issues to snag voters and blockade progress.
- Comment on does someone who lives very far away from me (for example 1900 miles) see the same night sky as me? (as in moon, stars, etc) 3 weeks ago:
While I’ve read every comment and found no real flaws, I’m here to add the one thing that makes the sky different (aside from east/west delays). Conjunctions won’t happen at the same time - or maybe not at all. You’ll see just about the same stars (with maybe a 3 hour delay) and the local bodies will be about the same. As long as you don’t try to watch the moon occulting a planet or eclipaing the sun, it’ll be the same sky. The lunar eclipse in a few days will look identical though, minus some negligible differences in viewing angle of the moon’s face. But the moon blocking some farther object is the only thing I can think of celestially that would be different. Just 50 miles of separation changed the perception of how the moon crossed the sun in the April 2024 North American solar eclipse. Some saw it go down, others up. The last and first sliver of solar crescent was different for everyone watching.
Orientation may flip as well if either of you is within 22N or 22S, stemming from the 22 degree tilt of the earth’s rotation. Depends on season and time of day. Northern hemisphere mostly sees celestial bodies to the south, southern hemi sees them to the north, tropical sees them north, south, overhead, and crossing.
- Comment on What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate 4 weeks ago:
If you go to the other side of the world, there’s a good chance your actions won’t be understood or might even convey the opposite meaning. Namely, mixing western and Asian body language is messy, depending on how much British colonization happened in the Asian half of the dialogue.
Source: I’ve been to India with Americans that believed they could communicate if they repeated their English statement slower, with the same verbal shortcuts, and angrier. This works in the big cities at customer service. The success rate drops as population density drops.
- Comment on This job description for a job posting by Amazon 5 weeks ago:
It’s a setting you may not realize is off until “the event”. Presumably, it’ll fix itself on new content, but enabling limited thumbnail height in Connect has made this post a small square in a huge blank space and now I’m mildly amused
- Comment on This job description for a job posting by Amazon 5 weeks ago:
I’m mildly infuriated for having to scroll pass this. Twice. Once in my feed, hoping it was c/mildylinfuriating, and a second time to come down here and tell you about it.
- Comment on Do snakes prefer to drink warm or cool water? 1 month ago:
Room temperature water because I chug a pint at a time and get on with my day. My bean water? Also room temperature, but because it’s the temperature that takes the least amount of work across preparation, storage, and consumption.
- Comment on Do snakes prefer to drink warm or cool water? 1 month ago:
“I think” applies to the reason for an evolutionary trait. They’ve presented that trait as fact.
- Comment on Starbucks Baristas Aren't Writing Messages On Your Cup By Choice 1 month ago:
It’s the same as Wendy’s having a department just to write sarcastic tweets. It’s makes you think of them as Corporation the Person instead of Corporation the Corporation. It’s brand imaging. It makes you form a sentimental attachment to a corporation so you choose them over competitors, alternatives, or not buying anything at all.
- Comment on What's the tallest pyramid we'd be able to build? Can we reach space? 1 month ago:
Stop? Somewhere around 1/3 of the diameter for a 45deg sloped pyramid, adding more layers would start projecting off the sides, offering no additional support for the new layer. Drawing a teardrop shape with a perfectly circular head and perfectly tangential tail with be the same as a cross section of this planet/pyramid
- Comment on What's the tallest pyramid we'd be able to build? Can we reach space? 1 month ago:
I’m not convinced Mt Everest represents the most weight normal earth can sustain but rather the most height gained by regular tectonic motion. However, I stead of asking how much weight can stony earth support before collapsing, it leads me to ask how much weight can the crust support before buckling? Perhaps this project has diminishing returns as more weight above causes the crust to bulge downward and compensate.